Teamsters Overwhelmingly Reject Waste Management Offer

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Teamsters Overwhelmingly Reject Waste Management Offer
Official Statement of Teamsters Local 200 Secretary-Treasurer Tom Millonzi
September 22, 2008

(Milwaukee, WI) – “Today, our members on strike against Waste Management overwhelmingly voted down the company’s contract proposal.

Our members have made clear with these last two votes that they will not approve a proposal that replaces their retirement’s defined benefit program with a 401(k) plan.

What makes this situation even more troubling for our members is that Waste Management has negotiated and settled three other Teamster contracts in other parts of the country over the last calendar year that included the Central States Pension Plan that the company now refuses to consider.

We have offered to meet with the company at any time and at any place in order to resolve this contract.”